Looking honestly at myself is more difficult work. Yesterday, we went to the dance floor. At first, it’s playful, trying out the new steps I’m learning from my classes, making mistakes, laughing it off. Later, I see that my partner is doing better than me, she’s picking up the routines…

Stumbled across this on Facebook today. Normalise giving your friends forehead or even little mouth kisses. Normalise stroking your friends’ hair. Normalise sitting on laps. Normalise cuddling up and spooning with friends to take naps. Normalise ‘I love yous’ Normalise cooking for your friends when they are sick, or just…

Aaron Wheelz didn’t stick the landing, but he tried again and became the definition of perseverance. My first impression as I stumbled across the video wasn’t about the wheelchair, it was about how buff that guy was, nice tan skin, and a really cute smile. Then they go into…

A friend shared with me this video of two men dancing bachata. I fell in love. Of course, the two men are attractive. What really moved me was the sensuality and playfulness with which they danced. At first, I thought, wow, amazing, two gay men in this beautiful YouTube…

There are books and films that move me to tears, and characters whose situations and journeys really inspire me. Making a note to myself as I continue to express the chaotic thoughts dancing in my mind. Taran Wanderer (1967 book from the Chronicles of Prydain) — Taran goes on a…

Yesterday I had that experience of unraveling again. It typically starts with some feeling of physical pain in my body, something that has been recurring for years, and for a moment I get frustrated about how I have tried so many times and for so long to address it, and…

He is outside, keeping himself busy to distract his mind from the pain, physical pain, and mental pain, the things that still give him nightmares at night, the things that still light his short fuse and get him angry, blaming government, other people, and maybe even himself for what’s going…

Sometimes I let go of my plan or routine because there’s a feeling that’s drawing me elsewhere, and it leads me to the most delightful experiences. Today, rather than rush to drive to the gym and do my stretch/dance/swim/workout so that I can make dinner in time so that I…

A friend shared an article about Jordan Pisey Windle, an Olympic athlete who was adopted from a Cambodian orphanage in the 1990’s by a single gay man, Jerry Windle. …